Travel makes you smarter.
The house that slavery built We woke up at 4:30 am, nice and early and left our private little apartment through the restaurant, locking the door on the way out and tossing the keys back inside through the window. We stopped in the main square and found Jesús asleep in his churro tent. We decided [...]
Moth in Mayapan Merida loop – day 7: We got up at seven-ish, gave five gold coins to our fine host and said goodbye. We rode down to the local tienda (store) and got some yogurts for our breakfast. It started to sprinkle so while we waited for a break in the weather we talked [...]
Gabriel, Enrique and Zofia swimming in Cenote Chihuo Hol Merida loop – day 6: At 5:30 am we snoozed the alarm and were on the road just after 8:00. We stopped in Sacalum for our oats & yogurt breakfast with raisins & nuts and soon afterwards Steven said he felt some inner tremors so he [...]
Indigenous to Mexico – poinsettia aka ‘Noche Buena’ (meaning Christmas Eve) Merida loop – day 1: Woke up early but we didn’t get on the road until 9:00 because we met some Poles in our guest house and talked a bit about traveling. You don’t often find so many Polish people traveling so it was [...]
Zoe heads off toward Merida Big trouble with little mosquitoes in our nice hotel last night so we had to setup our mosquito net which provides a wonderful bug-free protective cocoon allowing us to sleep with the comfort of knowing that those little Mexican vampires will not be dining on us.
The Ghost and the Cube Our bikes are setup and our bags are packed. We now have plane tickets and Zoe found us accomodation in Frankfurt from Hospitality Club. We have Steven’s friend the great climbing instructor and internationally acclaimed tour guide, Genero Guantanimo Suave Mesa who has agreed to accompany us on our tour. [...]
Steven waits in vain for the heavy fog to clear On Thursday we rented a Russian Minsk motorcycle which was kind of expensive at 150,000 Dong for the day but it was old and cool. We rode out along the road overlooking the valley but it was so foggy that we could barely see the [...]
Colorful dress and wonderful smiles Took a van with other tourists for a day trip from Sa Pa to the nearby village of Bac Ha for the famous market. It was about a two and a half hour ride over very windy roads for the round-trip price of 350,000 Dong for both of us. The [...]
A short way above the villages Yesterday, Friday the 13th, true to Asian form, our 9:00 bus left five minutes early. We got to Oudomxay (“womb ks-eye”) about 1:30 PM and waited an hour for our packed mini-van to be push-started for a three hour tour to Muang Khoa. We had to pay another three [...]
Aït Benhaddou is a fortified city (ksar) along the Ouarzazate River on the former caravan route between the Sahara desert and the city of Marrakech . Most of the town’s inhabitants now live in a more modern village ot the other side of the river; but, ten families however still live within the ksar which [...]
